FTP error: 421 Service Not Available
|wu-2.6.0 ftp server on RH6.2
|Happens when connecting from anywhere
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|I carelessly deleted my /usr/sbin directory. Upon restoring it from a
|near-identical machine (my backups for this machine were corrupt) I am
|getting this after entering my username:
|
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|[root@servername /]# ftp servername
|Connected to servername.mydomain.net.
|220 servername.mydomain.net FTP server (Version wu-2.6.0(3) Wed Oct 25
|19:13:25 BST 2000) ready.
|Name (servername:myusername): myusername
|421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
|Login failed.
|No control connection for command: No such file or directory
|ftp> quit
|[root@servername /]#
|
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|I use this ftp server everyday, so I know it worked just prior to
|deleting the /usr/sbin directory. It has been a while since I have
|troubleshooted an ftp connection. What could have gone wrong here?
You deleted the in.wuftpd daemon in /usr/sbin. This is invoked by inetd
or xinetd on demand.